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Long before the Oscar-nominated "Selma" was championed as the first major motion picture about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., another film chronicled the civil rights leader's march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

"Selma, Lord, Selma" was a made-for-TV movie by Walt Disney Pictures. Originally broadcast in 1999, the docudrama was an adaptation of a memoir by Sheyann Webb-Christburg, Rachel West Nelson and Frank Sikora. Webb-Christburg and West were young girls at the time of the march, ages 8 and 9, respectively.

The two films were made 15 years apart but make some of the same stylistic and script choices, and just like "Selma" director Ava...

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